Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shown around the House. The rules forbid any member receiving more than 50 guests at any one time, so Mr. Clarry had to depute 10 of his colleagues to look after 950 of the ladies. Finally, they departed in 30 charabancs. Reginald was reported to have withstood the ordeal "with remarkable fortitude...
...gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made, and the ordeal cannot be held...
Fritz Kreisler, violinist, gives the Drys a small talking point in a recent statement. He opines that wine has never helped him. Many concert musicians fortify themselves against the ordeal of public appearance by imbibing a festive glass just before going on stage. Kreisler does not follow the practice. He has tried it, but it does not help him. Presumably he drinks wine only for pleasure...
Today the Senior, for one short space, is supreme. He has gone through his hardest examinations, the ordeal of distinguishing between pink and white and yellow and green tickets, and of memorizing an intricate program of events. He has safely established his retinue of visitors at convenient or less convenient distances, and snatched a brief sleep after a strenuous and brilliant evening. The program of the day gives the center of the stage to 1923. Undergraduates linger only under tolerance, for the responsible function of ushering or the irresponsible one of satisfying an idle curiosity. The assembled graduates may lord...
...stubble, although all done from moral motives; in other words between good works of high, of moderate or of trifling value, and he rates them according to their enduring quality when tried by fire. It is this that gives the serious aspect to his statement of the severe ordeal to which a good man's good works will be subjected...